Urgent Care Paramedic Practitioner

This role provides post holders the opportunity to work across our hospital at home services including our virtual ward, urgent care wrap around service as well as assessing undifferentiated patients. The role will provide post holders with opportunities to develop their experience of urgent and primary care as part of a multidisciplinary team whilst supported by our clinical leads. GPN is an innovative patient focused organisation seeking to support patients to be cared for at home whenever possible., The post holder will be practising as a skilled practitioner within urgent care to provide patient-centred quality care. This will encompass the skills of history taking, assessment, examination, differential diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice.

Work as practitioner to

• Accept undifferentiated patients of referred to the service via a number of pathways including ambulance stack,ambulance crews, hospital teams and other community services whose condition can be managed in the community as an alternative to ED or inpatient admission.


• See and independently assess the patient, developing treatment / care plans and review milestones, this will include requesting of diagnostics including blood tests.


• Where advice is required or patient is outside of scope of practice link with service GP/ACP/


Provide support, advice and supervision of more junior registered and unregistered staff within the service.,
• Virtual ward services.


• Advice to ambulance crews to help patients remain at home or to see the most appropriate secondary care team.


• Recruitment, induction and support of workforce through a team dedicated to supporting Primary Care Networks and hosting of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Training Hub.


Our principles

• To attract innovation and investment into primary care.


• To be dynamic always seeking out new opportunities.


• To be the primary care provider at scale -supporting delivery of services at place level that benefits our patients and members.


• To engage our clinical community identifying local clinical leaders to drive service redesign and delivery across our place.


• To face challenges head on, working collaboratively to deliver solutions.
  
  Our vision:To provide the patients of Greater Peterborough with high quality, sustainable healthcare that supports them to stay well and at home for as long as possible.


We are an ambitious at scale primary care organisation with a passion for integration and innovation.

We provide:

• Enhanced evening and weekend access to General Practice.


• Deliver at scale services to improve the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve.